Monday, January 26
Dianne Roe returned from a visit to Bethany near Jerusalem where she saw the
recently demolished home of her friends. (see release: ANOTHER DEMOLITION:
SHEFA'S STORY).

Tuesday, January 27
As Dianne Roe and JoAnne Lingle returned toward home from night patrol, a car
with yellow plates (West Bank Palestinians have blue plates; Israelis,
including settlers, have yellow plates) approached them from behind. A young
man wearing a skull cap shouted a death threat from the back seat as the car
slowed down and passed close to them. "Go back to America you scumbags
before we kill you." Then louder, "We will kill you." The car turned into
Avraham Avinu, one of the four settler enclaves in the center of Hebron.

Later in the evening Sara Reschly and Hisham, a Palestinian friend of the
team, witnessed two Israeli military police beating a Palestinian they had
detained at the checkpoint near the CPT apartment. One of the soldiers
shoved the Palestinian into the checkpoint shelter area where the soldier
began to punch him in the face.

The soldier stopped when Reschly ran toward him and yelled "Hey!" The
Palestinian had a small pocket knife on him and was not carrying his ID. He
called his family and was released about one half hour later when a family
member returned with his ID. When asked why he hit the Palestinian, the
soldier replied, "I didn't do anything." His partner replied "I didn't see
anything."

Wednesday, January 28
As Reschly was walking in front of Avraham Avinu, she noticed that many
(about 50) Palestinians were gathering around an Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
jeep. She observed soldiers roughing up Palestinians. About five minutes
later 5-7 soldiers were on one Palestinian and 5-7 soldiers were on another,
beating their fists into the Palestinians' heads.

Reschly ran over yelling "HELLO! I'M WATCHING YOU. I SEE WHAT YOU ARE
DOING. STOP! THIS IS NOT OKAY! " The soldiers roughly pushed the
Palestinians away. TIPH international observers showed up and started taking
pictures and video. The two Palestinians appeared to be deaf. (There is a
center for the deaf nearby). The team did not find out the cause of the
incident.

Thursday, January 29
Happy feast! Eid sa'eed! Thursday was the first day of the Feast
al-Fitr-marking the end of the month of Ramadan on the Islamic calendar.
The Hebron team's Muslim neighbors had fasted from food and drink from
sun-up to sundown for the previous twenty-nine days. Throughout this week
families had been making traditional cookies filled with nuts or a date
mixture.

Muslim children celebrated the Feast by dressing up gaily in new clothes as
they went to visit their relatives.

In the afternoon Chuck Andeel and Robert Young from the Canadian Embassy
visited Pierre Schantz.

According to the team's Israeli friends from the Coalition Against Home
Demolitions (the group whose work parallels CPT's Campaign for Secure
Dwelling) about 40 of their members interrupted a meeting of the Jerusalem
City Council to proclaim orally and with large banners: "Stop the Demolition
of Homes." (e-mail Gila Svirsky >100264.1401 [at] compuserve [dot] com< for a more
complete report)

Friday, January 30
Second day of feast. CPT members paid visits to neighbors and took turns
hosting the visitors who came to their door. Nidal Tamimi from the Hebron
municipality brought a delegation of Israelis from the Meretz party who came
to the CPT apartment to express solidarity and gratitude for CPT's witness,
especially in the face of the recent death threats. CPT members noted that
they were indebted to these Israelis, as well. The Meretz Party has sent
delegations to Hebron in the past, often in the midst of settler violence and
threats to their personal safety. The team thanked them for their witness.
One of their members asked if a Jew could join CPT.

Shortly after dusk Pierre Shantz, Sara Reschly, Mark Frey and Anne
Montgomery saw soldiers and TIPH at the checkpoint near the CPT apartment.
The soldiers were forcing a fourteen year old boy to sit with his hands
behind him. Anne and Sara sat next to the boy on the ground. The boy started
to smoke a cigarette; one soldier ordered him to stop and pushed him up
against a wall. Sara intervened verbally. The soldier stopped assaulting
the boy and released him after 15 or 20 minutes.

Dianne Roe and JoAnne Lingle visited the upstairs neighbors where a
television news broadcast was in the background as they sipped tea. It
stated that United States was preparing to bomb Iraq again. Inas, the
younger of the two sisters with whom the team was visiting said pensively,
"It seems our leaders just can't learn the lessons of history. Saddam
Hussein hasn't learned and Bill Clinton hasn't learned. And always it is the
people who are suffering."

Saturday, January 31
Dianne Roe went with a local journalist to a home nea